Background: Premature birth and subsequent admission to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) may impair the neurodevelopment of neonates. The present study aimed to determine the effect of developmental care on neurodevelopmental outcomes of newborns.Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted on 105 premature neonates (in three groups of 35 newborns). The control group receiv...

OBJECTIVE. This retrospective study explored sensory processing characteristics in preschool-age children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD); the relationships between sensory processing and problem behavior, adaptive behavior, and cognitive function; and the differences in sensory processing between two subgroups (autism and pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified). METHOD. ...

In artificial intelligence (AI) there are two major schools, symbolic and connectionist. Weng 2011 [6] proposed three major properties of the Developmental Network (DN) which bridged the two schools: (1) From any complex FA that demonstrates human knowledge through its sequence of the symbolic inputs-outputs, the DP incrementally develops a corresponding DN through the image codes of the symbol...

The aim of this study was to follow-up infants who were assessed in early infancy, at approximately 6 months of age, to determine the developmental impact of social withdrawal at approximately 30 months of age. Infants were administered the Bayley Scales of Infant Development-Third Edition, and the mothers complete the Behavior Assessment System for Children (BASC), Second Edition-Parent Rating...

This paper models a biological brain—excluding motivation (e.g., emotions)—as a Finite Automaton in Developmental Network (FA-in-DN), but such an FA emerges incrementally in DN. In artificial intelligence (AI), there are two major schools: symbolic and connectionist. Weng 2011 [1] proposed three major properties of the Developmental Network (DN) which bridged the two schools: 1) From any comple...

Path-sensitivity improves program analysis by excluding infeasible paths and avoiding the merging of paths into a single abstraction if they exhibit different behavior. The main challenge however is that path-sensitive analysis is not scalable. In this paper, we present a symbolic execution-based framework which uses dynamic programming (DP) in order to reuse analyses arising from symbolic exec...

Complex sleep behaviors (CSBs) are often associated with hypnotics use. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and correlates of CSBs among individuals who were taking flunitrazepam from psychiatric outpatient clinics. A total of 268 participants who were administered flunitrazepam for at least 3 months were enrolled from psychiatric outpatient clinics from June 2011 to May 2012. The o...

Little is known about the female presentation of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) during early childhood. We investigated sex differences in developmental profiles using the Mullen Scales of Early Learning, autistic symptoms on the ADOS-G, and coexisting behavior problems on the CBCL in 157 boys and 42 girls with ASD aged 1.5-3.9 years. Overall, boys and girls evidenced a markedly similar pattern...